PLAYROOM TOUR: Playroom ideas for toddlers + preschoolers on a budget [+ Playroom Organization Tips] 

I love this, we turned our dining room into a play room and it was the best decision we’ve ever made.

Such a wonderful space! In other news, your backyard is downright dreamy 😍

Your videos are always so well done! So informative and the toys you have are so good for development. Love finding inspiration for more ways to utilize the open ended toys & lovevery toys! I was so pumped when I saw you posted a playroom tour!

thanks

Our living room is a play room too. We've discussed a dining room table but never had space. We have an art bin but need to incorporate your art cart. Love it.

Love converting your living room into a play room, we’re planning on doing the same! Question: would you expand on your stance on libraries and playgrounds?

I love this video and your channel! Thank you so much for encouraging moms and having such a great attitude! I love that you talk about the flexibility of play spaces and give such honest reviews! You were right about the trofast, so much better than one small bin for toys. I am a minimalist so I thought just having less toys was the answer but it’s also about the environment! Your kids have many toys but because of the environment they have organization and options! Thank you for bringing me into the world of Montessori, I just associated pricier toys and wooden toys to it before! Now I’m embracing it and educating myself!

Thank you for the tour - that was so fun to watch. We use a lot of similar concepts, including our living room being "the playroom". It's where we are all day long, so it makes the most sense to us. Your most played with area is so similar to ours, it's hilarious. The only thing that changed in the last year, is that the lovevery dollhouse is gone now and instead the Chalsea dreamhouse sits on top of the trofast (a gift to our girls from their uncle last Christmas and from that day on, the lovevery house didn't stand a chance anymore 😂 ). Also additionally, a basket with Lego duplo next to the trofast - our girls love duplo and love to mix it with all the blocks, tiles, figures, cars, etc. We also use trofast for everything - their clothes, their toys, even their playkitchen is majorly trofast. One tip for heavy items like magnatiles and wooden blocks in there: store them on the bottom, simply don't use the sliding mechanism for them (hope that makes sense the way I write it). I do that for all heavy and some oversized items and works so well (btw, I wouldn't recommend the all wooden trofast - they are notorious for the baskets to slide out if they are used without a lid, so the white trofast is a lot less frustrating for kids). We have a similar rule - if we cannot get the place cleaned up in under 20 minutes, something needs to change. And I think it's largely thanks to the trofast, that the kids find it easy and the cleanup is so quick (honestly, it could be faster but my kids have a huge loose parts collection they love and use daily in their playkitchen and they insist on sorting correctly every evening, which takes at least half of the cleanup time 😂 and the ballpit can be a culprit, too). Tip for those without the space for an art area: we bought big silicone mats to use on our table for any messy art activity. Makes it really easy to just lift them when we need the space to eat and reduces arts and crafts cleanup to once per day. Btw, that pasta shape maker from KiwiCo looks amazing. Will definitely get it for our girls for Christmas, thanks for the recommendation. We only recently found a solution for our books. We used to have baskets with books and I used to rotate (I gave up toy rotation a while ago but stuck to book rotation far too long - now the only things out of reach are some art materials, some educational materials and some puzzles). While our recently turned 2 year old utilized the baskets with books all the time, our nearly 4 year old often looked for books that weren't out and that made her read books less and less. So recently, we got a good old cube shelf (we needed a 3 x 4 dimension kallax for our collection). The bottom shelves each hold a basket with mostly board books that our 2 year old continues to use a lot, simply by pulling the basket out. The rest of the shelves, the books are roughly sortet by category. Our soon to be 4 year old reads so much now that all the books are available to her. It's been amazing (the only thing I rotate is seasonal books in one designated season shelf). Anyway, it works extremely well for us, so I thought I'd mention it. In addition, we have one over the door organizer with their current favorite books they like us to read to them - especially for the 2 year old, it helps her to have those a bit more visual (and helps the more fragile books she likes to be out of reach but still easy for her to tell us to get it and read it together 😊 she is very enthusiastic with books, which annoyingly leads to a lot of destruction). Which reminds me - really envious that your 2 year old is deterred by storing things out of sight. Since roughly 15 months old, our now 2 year old simply carries a step stool around to reach what she isn't supposed to 😂 Anyway, I'd say the only thing we have additionally, is a dress up area right next to our playkitchen/market area. My kids are obsessed with dress up and pretend. Of course we have another trofast just for that (holding hats, shoes, scarves, sunglasses, purses, doctor kits, etc) 😂 we recently added a mirror for them and a little wooden rack for the dresses and costumes (firefighter jacket, doctor coat, aprons, etc), which has been absolutely amazing for their daily dress up sessions (especially our soon to be 4 year old is more in costumes than actual clothes 😂 ).

CHAPTERS: 1:20 Organization Tips 2:43 When to stop toy rotation 3:09 5 Areas of Montessori 3:25 Creating an unconventional play space 3:50 Small space playroom tips 4:57 Art Corner 9:05 Main playroom 9:35 Small space storage toy 10:30 Toy rotation shelf 11:44 Pretend play 12:06 STEM Easel 12:45 Switching up your space tips 12:55 *Most PLAYED IN AREA* Minimalist Playroom set up 13:38 Labeling tip 15:05 More always out toys 16:55 Natural materials vs plastic 17:29 backyard toys 18:43 Garage/more outdoor toys

I love what you did with your living room! 🤩 Your play spaces are a dream! I wish amazon was smarter, and the amazon links would work in us/uk/es/wherever the person is! But thank you for listing so many of the toys! So many awesome ideas 😍

Thanks for sharing and your tips!! What brand of play couches do you have??

All of them. All the ideas. I’m literally, literally going to just recreate this verbatim because we own almost all same items and I’m exhausted trying to store puzzles and loose pieces

Your home is beautiful !! Could you post the link to the ikea buffet cabinet? Thank you!!

Love this video! Look forward to your content every week. Would you consider doing an updated video on Kiwico? They have added/ changed a lot not only with their subscription but individual kits and would love your opinion on them. Especially since you have done such a great job for everything lovevery!

You might just be my new best friend!!!

Love the video! May I ask How do you like the kiwico xylophone? Does it come with the sticks?

This was super helpful. Thanks! It gave me a lot of a good ideas for our house. Quick question. Would do anything different if you also had a 12 month old?

Love your videos, what set of colored blocks do you have. I love the bigger size.

So nice! I loved watching this video ❤ How do you like the kiwi o xylophone? I was interested in it but didn’t understand the buttons part. Does it sound like a piano or a xylophone when you press them. Also do the come with sticks? I also noticed you had the kiwico lock box. Do you like it better than loveverys lock box?

How to homeschool and have toy area if you live in a 2 room town home?

Hello! Is the easel magnetic at all?